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The Interactive Fly

A cyberspace guide to Drosophila development
and metazoan evolution
Scout Report 
Selection

Scientific American Sci/Tech 
Web Awards 2002

Gene Index
Alphabetical:
Genes A - D
    Genes E - K
        Genes L - R
            Genes S - Z

Genes grouped according to biochemical function
(examples: transcription factors, ligands and receptors, etc.)

Biochemical pathways:
Maternal genes
Zygotically transcribed genes


Study Aids


Developmental pathways conserved in evolution

All I Really Needed to Know I Learned During Gastrulation, by Scott Gilbert. Concepts in developmental biology.

Quirks of Human Anatomy, by Lewis Held Jr. How genetic circuitry has facilitated or frustrated anatomical evolution.

Drosophila Images

BrainGenes

Other on-line resources

Databases: Download the Interactive Fly

Tissue and Organ Development
Embryonic
Stages of development

Atlas of Drosophila Development by Volker Hartenstein

Gastrulation and other morphogenetic movements

Histogenesis: index of genes active in the formation of various germ layers and tissues (including ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm)

Morphogenesis and organogenesis: index of genes active in the formation of various organs (including eyes, gut, heart, nervous system, and wing)

Larval development
Imaginal Discs and Tissues

Imaginal Discs: The Genetic and Cellular Logic of Pattern Formation, by Lewis Held Jr.

Adult
Formation of the adult fly
(morphogenesis and organogenesis)

Oogenesis and Spermatogenesis

Behavioral paradigms


Fly Labs & References Updated May 19, 2013
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The Interactive Fly
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above: images of male and female
Drosophila melanogaster from
THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF HEREDITY
Thomas Hunt Morgan
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company
1919

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2013
Thomas B. Brody, Ph.D.

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67th Edition Posted April 19, 2013

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